[squid-users] Re: Cacheboy-1.1 release, testers wanted!

Is squid being renamed?

Or what the relation of cacheboy to the squid project?

Or was it the 2.7 branch that was renamed to cacheboy
(is there one for girls?...not sure a I want a boy caching
my webcontent -- but thats another matter...:-))

I'm also a bit perturbed, that 3.0, which has been around
forever, is still in Beta, while alot of work continues to
go on in the 2.x line. I mean "usually" most work goes toward
the new generation....with maybe 1 person handing bug fixes
for 2.x...and usually most feature work goes into 3.x...

I'm not trying to direct or anything, I don't understand all
the politics or what's going on...

Is cacheboy going to become a 3rd squid proxy server? Or
why was it split off?

If it's really designed to be a separate fork going off in a
different direction, I don't suppose it's very high traffic
at this point, but it seem like it's yet another distractor
for moving ahead getting all features and performance work
needed in 3.x I mean -- the linux kernel is alot bigger and
has a greater diversity of needs than squid would likely ever
have, yet they, remarkably, have managed to stay mostly cohesive,
but maybe no one with 'squid' has linus's charismatic charm? (?!?)

But certainly a lesson to be taken from linux, no matter what
examples there are to it not working for some developers (and there
have been examples -- nothing is perfect), but the bulk of the
work is focused and there doesn't seem to be any forks of any
note, meaning ones that weren't intended as testing/development
playgrounds with the work being remerged later, sorta faded away.

So I guess, how did cacheboy come to be and why is it here (which
may become obvious if I know the connection to the 'main' squid
project...)? :-?
Received on Sat Jun 07 2008 - 20:32:41 MDT